The primary mission for today’s scheduled launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is putting a Spanish radar imaging satellite in low Earth orbit — but it’s the secondary missions that are really interesting. Riding along with Hisdesat’s Paz spacecraft are the first two prototypes for what’s eventually expected to become a SpaceX constellation of thousands of satellites, designed to provide low-cost broadband internet service from low Earth orbit. The technologies underpinning the constellation, informally known as Starlink, are being pioneered at SpaceX’s facilities in Redmond, Wash. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the multibillion-dollar project in 2015 in Seattle, he… Read More read moreDisclaimer: Chances are that this post was requested by an advertiser.